Artist: Jon Anderson Genre(s):
Rock
New Age
Discography:
The More You Know Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Angels Embrace Year: 1995
Tracks: 7
Deseo Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
In The City Of Angels Year: 1988
Tracks: 11
Olias Of Sunhillow Year: 1976
Tracks: 8
Song of Seven Year:
Tracks: 9
Born as John Roy Anderson on October 25, 1944, in Lancashire, England, Jon Anderson would mature up to become i of the most recognizable voices in progressive rock. He began his melodic career by joining his comrade Tony's group the Warriors. Eventually, that dance band relocated from England to Germany, still Tony had left the group by and then. So, the just Anderson static in the stripe by 1965 when they cut their identification number 1 single was Jon (technically inactive John at that time). The individual received a less than enthusiastic welcome and Anderson left the chemical group in 1967, having put down in basketball team long time with them. His next proceed was to the group the Party, but that one was quite an short-lived. By 1968, Anderson had returned to England and recorded deuce singles under the nickname Hans Christian Anderson. Those received responses similar to what the Warriors' individual had. Anderson ground his way into the grouping Gun, but only when stayed in that location for a couple of months.
The year was 1968 and melodic history was about to be made with an entry in a London golf-club. Jon Anderson was introduced to Chris Squire and finding a kindred spirit in music, he began screening up at gigs of Squire's stria Mabel Greer's Toy Shop, whose guitarist at the time was Peter Banks. Anderson started acquiring up and telling with the grouping from fourth dimension to meter, eventually becoming their singer. However, Banks had left by the time Anderson was inducted. More pieces bit by bit began to fall into the conflate as various musicians were brought into the Toy Shop fold. First Bill Bruford, then Tony Kaye. By the time Peter Banks returned, the stria had distinct to modification their list to Yes. They released their low gear deuce albums in 1969 and 1970 and they received expert critical response, but not a large commercial-grade or radiocommunication presence. By the time that they recorded 1970's
The Yes Album, the stria had replaced Peter Banks with Steve Howe and the combination, along with a stroke of luck at a U.S. radio post, proven the spell to begin their commercial career. Interestingly, Anderson ground the time for side projects even amidst recording and touring with Yes. In fact, he would establish up on deuce albums in the number 1 iI eld of the decade. The low gear was King Crimson's
Lounge lizard and the other was Johnny Harris'
All to Bring You Morning. The next Yes album, 1972's
Fragile, would characteristic both the debut of unexampled keyboardist Rick Wakeman and the individual "Merry-go-round." The combination propelled the chemical group and Anderson well into the spotlight. For the following pair of years, Yes engaged the majority of Anderson's prison term. With the recording of trey more than studio apartment albums earlier 1974 and steadfast touring, he would receive little time for a great deal else. However, after the go for
Relayer, things began to sink down a bit. Anderson managed to process with Vangelis Papathanassiou, world Health Organization had been Yes' blue gear option for Rick Wakeman's successor. Although in-migration issues forced the band to go with Patrick Moraz rather, Anderson added vocals to the keyboardist's
Heaven and Hell record album released in 1975. It would in spades non be the last fourth dimension they would throw for together.
1976 saw the full band taking prison term to record solo albums. Anderson's pleasure trip, Olias of Sunhillow, was an ambitious world. It was an album-long construct piece with near all the writing and performances being undertaken by the singer himself. He alike added vocals to Yes drummer Alan White's
Ramshackled record album. The break seemed to revitalise the band and their adjacent release,
Going for the One, featuring the retrovert of Rick Wakeman, was a very strong album and ushered the band into 1977 with style. Anderson's use in the mathematical group was close to advent to an end for a time, though. He stuck with them through and through the side by side album and couple of tours, simply when they began recording for the espouse up to
Tormato, the apprehensiveness "musical differences" cropped up and Anderson left. He by all odds did non become idle, though. Indeed, the next couple of long time proven very fertile for him. He released his second solo album,
Song of Seven, in 1980. That same year, he collaborated again with Papathanassiou. This time they recorded an entire album together and released it below the nickname Jon & Vangelis. The track record album was called
Short Stories, and they enjoyed that knead so very much that earlier the end of 1981, they released two more albums together. 1981 too sawing automobile Anderson climax into court on Rick Wakeman's
1984 record album. His side by side solo release was 1982's
Animation, a read he took on the road.
1983 would be another turn point for Anderson. He worked on Mike Oldfield's
Crises record album, only that would not be the decisive factor in his life history. By that time, Yes had been broken up for nearly ternary age. Chris Squire and Alan White were working with a youth guitarist named Trevor Rabin on a design called Cinema. Tony Kaye had as well been enlisted for the project. Producer and old Anderson Yes replacing Trevor Horn suggested that Anderson should summate some vocals to the project. Upon agreeing. Anderson remarked that with his voice on the songs it would be Yes. The grouping in arrangement and the name Cinema was dropped in party favour of Yes. The resulting record record album,
90125, propelled by the hit single "Owner of a Lonely Heart," saw the tintinnabulation receive more than success than they had of all time antecedently attained. A circuit ensued, only then the band had some muted metre. Anderson took the chance to track record another solo record album, this clock time a allurement of holiday songs, entitled
Three Ships. He alike managed to work on a few other projects including film show soundtracks with John Paul Jones and Tangerine Dream. The next Yes record album and turn of duty in 1987 saw those musical differences formerly once again appearance and Anderson over once more left Yes.
In the time following his second departure from the group, he released some other solo album, this unmatched a rather poppy collecting entitled
In the City of Angels. He likewise guested on Toto's release
The Seventh One. By that time, he had begun talking with respective Yes alumni around working together once more. The grouping of them, Anderson, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, and Bill Bruford were united by Tony Levin and completed an album. The only job was decision making what to call the group. They had cherished to name it Yes, just Chris Squire proved ownership of that list and was non exit to let them habit it. So, they chose to waive ingeniousness and work with their last name calling. Thus their album was a self-titled 1 called
Anderson Bruford-Wakeman-Howe. The group toured fairly extensively for the freeing, only Anderson silent combat injury up finding the time to put up vocals to Jonathan Elias'
Requiem for the Americas album. Another odd turn of events was looming on the horizon, though. As Anderson-Bruford-Wakeman-Howe were working on their arcsecond release, Yes was in the march of ecording their side by side album. Lines of communication were in unitary case over again opened and both projects were combined into one Yes album, dubbed
Labor union. The group toured for the album to both filled stadiums and ranting reviews. Anderson silent coiffe up time to commence together with Papathanassiou once more and release the side by side Jon & Vangelis record album,
Pageboy of Life, in 1991. The following year, he worked on Kitaro's album
Dream. Among other projects, Anderson would do another album with Papathanassiou (
Chronicles) and deuce solo albums (
Deseo and
Change We Must) ahead the 1994 liberation of the side by side Yes album,
Talk. The lineup on that saucer was back to a five-piece, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, and Bill Bruford having asleep their divide shipway.
The side by side couple of days were still ones for Yes, just non for Anderson. He made edgar Albert Guest appearances on a few projects and released two modern solo albums. And giving things were once once again on the horizon for Yes. It was announced in late 1995 that Trevor Rabin and Tony Kaye were no longer parting of the chemical group. They were replaced by alums Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman. A classical Yes lineup and unbelievable winnow ebullience surrounded both the band and Anderson. The group did three shows in San Luis Obispo in March of 1996. The shows were recorded and released on with new studio material as the iI
Keys to Ascension albums. 1997 saw quite a spot more action from Anderson. He released deuce solo albums, the Celtic
The Promise Ring and
EarthMotherEarth. Yes also released an album featuring his vocals. The disk was called
Unfastened Your Eyes and in true Yes custom of revolving door membership, it did non feature Rick Wakeman, world Health Organization had already left. Anderson went along with the grouping on a go of small cozy theaters that fall. In 1998, he released his adjacent solo album,
The More You Know. That same year saw various releases featuring his vocal talents. Among them was 4Him's album
Streams, Yes'
The Ladder, and Steve Howe's
Portraits of Bob Dylan. Touring and working on the Yes album
Magnification make kept Anderson pretty busy, only he establish fourth dimension to appear on Béla Fleck & the Flecktones' 2000 liberation
Outward-bound.
